And I've been shouting about it since childhood, but especially now that I live in the UK...but it's almost as if having only 2 parties can't accurately represent 331 million people ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ #SpeakerVote
It's "hard" to care about legislating during a 2-year term that these fame-chasers spend the entirety of grandstanding for endless fundraising dollars to win the next election from Day 1 in office. You can trace a direct line from 15 votes to elect a #Speaker and #CitizensUnited
When you have elected Congressional members choosing not to hire policy people and proudly bragging that "I have built my staff around comms rather than legislation," when they've given up even all pretense of governing, what is the House even doing anymore? #SpeakerVote
Build a society with an unlivable $7.25 minimum wage.Scoff and say if people want to make more money, go to college. Create a culture where college costs an average of $26,290/year. Say people shouldn't have gotten a student loan if they "couldn't afford it". #makeitmakesense
"Hard-working Americans shouldn't have to pay for other people's choices." Average Americans didn't choose to pay for the 26 profitable corporations that haven't paid a cent in taxes for the last 3 years. #studentloanforgiveness
Pretty positive it wasn't your average American that made the choice to increase the military budget by $29 billion in a year we are not technically at war, either. Taxes are literally paying for choices made by others by definition. Get a new argument. #studentloanforgiveness
Ppl keep presenting the "slippery slope" argument that if we tear down Confederate statues, we'll tear down statues of everyone who's offensive & eventually there'll be no statues left. Well, here's a complex, nuanced counterargument to the prospect of a statue-less world:
"So?"
@jpo09@FloTrack Mondo is actually American! He's from my hometown of Lafayette, Louisiana. His mom is from Sweden and he's competing on their team for the Olympics, though.
It's a beautiful day to be federally disenfranchised! It's especially enraging to be denied representation as I cast my vote 2 blocks from the Capitol. If,… https://t.co/0C3T7gW7Nu
@Icelandair my friend stuck at BWI for the night for TWO DAYS IN A ROW is missing vacation days, sleep, and more importantly, our friend's wedding! Can't give her back the memories she's missing but you had BETTER give her back her money and get her out on another airline. #FI640
Congress voted 517-5 to impose sanctions on Russia. The President decides to ignore that law. Folks that is a constitutional crisis. There should be outrage in every corner of this country.
Two weeks ago a 26-year old soldier raced repeatedly into a burning Bronx apartment building, saving four people before he died in the flames. His name was Pvt. Emmanuel Mensah and he immigrated from Ghana, a country Donald Trump apparently thinks produces very subpar immigrants.